International Peace Tour 1957

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Tour winner: Nentscho Christow (Bulgaria)

The 10th International Peace Ride 1957 (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 2nd to 15th. The stage race led from Prague via East Berlin to Warsaw and was won in the individual standings by the Bulgarian Nentscho Christow . The GDR team won the team competition .

Attendees

Only 14 countries had registered for the anniversary tour, in 1956 24 teams had participated. This time the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands were missing. Each participating country started with six drivers, so that the field at the start in Prague consisted of 84 participants.

The GDR squad consisted of:
Wolfgang Braune , Günter Grünwald , Roland Henning , Lothar Meister II , Gustav-Adolf Schur and Helmut Stolper .

route

The race, divided into twelve stages, between Prague via East Berlin to Warsaw stretched over 2220 kilometers. The longest stage was 229 kilometers long and on the eighth day of the race led from East Berlin to Görlitz . The final stage from Łódź to Warsaw was the shortest at 140 kilometers. There were four mountain stages between Brno and Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Race course

It was the race of the Bulgarian Nentscho Christow. After the second stage, he wore the yellow jersey of the leader in the individual standings. He lost it to the Soviet driver Viktor Kapitonov for one day on the ninth stage , got it back with a violent kick on the tenth day of the race and then carried it unchallenged to the finish in Warsaw. Stan Brittain from England won two stages and Louis Proost from Belgium won three. The Belgian team won six stages, half of all daily ratings. The GDR drivers did not manage to win a stage, the best of the team was Günter Grünwald in eighth, 19:51 minutes behind Christow. Of the 84 riders who started, 63 reached the finish in Warsaw.

Despite the six stage wins, Belgium only managed to place fourth in the team classification. A fierce battle broke out between Poland and the GDR for the blue jerseys in the final stage. Up until then, the Poles had led on eight daily segments and went into the finals in second place with a five-minute lead over the GDR. With a tactical masterpiece through two breakaway attempts by Braune and Schur, the GDR drivers succeeded in taking the Poles from over twelve minutes and winning the peace drive.

Stage overview
stage Start finish Stage
length		 Stage winner Time (h) km / h
01. Prague - Brno 224 km Axel Öhgren (Sweden) 6:02:46 36.9
02. Brno - Tábor 177 km Stan Brittain (England) 5:07:39 41.4
03. Tabor - Prague 160 km Nentscho Christow (Bulgaria) 4:10:21 38.5
04th Prague - Karlovy Vary 174 km Louis Proost (Belgium) 4:52:22 35.5
05. Karlsbad - Karl-Marx-Stadt 140 km Louis Proost (Belgium) 3:48:29 36.5
06th Karl-Marx-Stadt - Leipzig 165 km Vlastimil Ružička (CSR) 4:24:18 37.3
07th Leipzig - East Berlin 207 km Guillaume Van Tongerloo (Belgium) 5:16:57 39.0
08th. East Berlin - Goerlitz 229 km Willy Butzen (Belgium) 5:30:35 41.6
09. Görlitz - Wroclaw 188 km Stan Brittain (England) 4:10:11 45.0
10. Wroclaw - Katowice 201 km Willy Butzen (Belgium) 4:54:16 40.8
11. Katowice - Łódź 215 km Louis Proost (Belgium) 5:32:56 38.6
12. Łódź - Warsaw 140 km Anatoly Cherepovich (USSR) 3:13:54 43.2

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team time
01 . Nentscho Christow Bulgaria 58:01:19 h
02. Stan Brittain England + 6:27 min
03. Viktor Kapitonov USSR + 11:37 min
04th Louis Proost Belgium + 13:52 min
05. Bernard Pruski Poland + 15:00 min
06th Rolf Hiller Sweden + 15:22 min
07th Joseph Boudon France + 19:02 min
08th. Günter Grünwald GDR + 19:51 min
09. Veselin Petrovic Yugoslavia + 20:49 min
10. Helmut Stolper GDR + 22:35 min
11. Gustav-Adolf Schur GDR + 23:48 min
12. Willy Butzen Belgium + 24:13 min
13. Anatoly Cherepovich USSR + 30:44 min
14th Constantin Dumitrescu Romania + 31:48 min
15th Karl-Magnus Amell Sweden + 33:53 min
16. Grzegorz Chwiendacz Poland + 35:47 min
17th Wolfgang Braune GDR + 37:16 min
18th Roland Henning GDR + 37:44 min
19th Lothar Master II GDR + 37:54 min
20th Owen Blower England + 38:11 min
...
63. Mihály Csikós Hungary + 7:52:04 h
Team ranking
team time
01. GDR 174: 34: 55 h
02. Poland + 7:14 min
03. Soviet Union + 9:52 min
04th Belgium + 12:22 min
05. Sweden + 21:37 min
06th England + 46:39 min
07th France + 1:02:04 h
08th. Romania + 1:12:19 h
09. Bulgaria + 1:21:10 h
10. Denmark + 1:35:06 h
11. Yugoslavia + 1:55:19 h
12. Czechoslovakia + 3:23:09 h
13. Hungary + 6:43:20 h
14th Finland + 8:25:30 h

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May. Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, pp. 219-224, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 .
  • That was the Xth Peace Trip. Neues Deutschland, Berlin 1957, 32 pages
  • X. International Peace Trip Prague-Berlin-Warsaw 1957. Sport im Bild, Berlin 1957, 32 pages

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Hönel, Olaf Ludwig: 100 Highlights Peace Trip . Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00717-2 , p. 27 .